Motor Vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics
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Daring WingsDaring WingsSome of our biggest news stories will break above the clouds. The skyways are going to unfold great tales of romance, of daring, possibly of banditry, but whatever it may be, we must have the stories. Do you want the job of getting...
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The Sky TrailThe Sky TrailTim Murphy, famous young flying reporter and aviation editor of the News, pecked away half-heartedly at his typewriter trying to write a story about a minor automobile accident that had happened a few minutes before in front of the News building. The...
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A Viking of the Sky: A Story of a Boy Who Gained Success in AeronauticsA Viking of the Sky: A Story of a Boy Who Gained Success in AeronauticsIn mind, Hal Dane was already just below the stars, riding the clouds in a winged ship; before him, on imaginary instrument board, ticked the latest thing in indicator, controller,...
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Artificial and Natural FlightArtificial and Natural FlightIt was in 1856 that I first had my attention called to the subject of flying machines. My father, who was a profound thinker and a clever mechanician, seems to have given the subject a great deal of thought, and to...
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The Motor Boys in the Clouds or, A Trip for Fame and FortuneThe Motor Boys in the Clouds; or, A Trip for Fame and FortuneDear Boys: In this, the ninth of the books in the Motor Boys Series, Jerry, Ned and Bob decide that as they have had a number of adventures on land and water,...
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The Adventure Girls in the AirThe Adventure Girls in the AirThe airplane circled low over the shore, its motor a loud humming noise. The begoggled head of the pilot peered over the side at the little group of people on the beach as he sent his plane zooming up...
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The Boy Aviators in Record Flight Or, The Rival AeroplaneThe Boy Aviators in Record Flight; Or, The Rival Aeroplane 1 The Boy Aviators in Nicaragua; or, In League with the Insurgents. 2 The Boy Aviators on Secret Service; or, Working with Wireless. 3 The Boy Aviators in Africa; or, An Aerial Ivory Trail...
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The First Man-Carrying Aeroplane Capable of Sustained Free Flight: Langley's Success as a Pioneer in AviationThe First Man-Carrying Aeroplane Capable of Sustained Free Flight: Langley's Success as a Pioneer in Aviation - From the Smithsonian Report for 1914, pages 217-222, Publication 2329, 1915It is doubtful whether any person of the present generation will be able to appraise correctly the...
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La Vettura Automobile: sue parti - suo funzionamentoLa Vettura Automobile: sue parti - suo funzionamento Vi sono molte opere pregevolissime sull'argomento, ma la maggior parte o trattano solo distesamente dei motori, o solamente di un tipo di vettura, oppure sono troppo sviluppate e dettagliate e sono quindi pi adatte a quelle...
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Benjamin Franklin and the First BalloonsBenjamin Franklin and the First Balloons The recent bi-centenary of Franklins birth, which coincided with the revival of interest in balloons, makes this a timely topic, especially since Franklins descriptions of the first balloon ascensions are almost unknown and do not appear among his...
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The Phantom AirmanThe Phantom AirmanRittmeister Heinrich von Spitzer, late flight-commander in the German Air Service, was one of the Prussian irreconcilables, who, rather than submit to the peace terms enforced by the Allies after the defeat of Germany, resolved to become an aerial brigand, an outlaw...
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Die Luftschiffahrt der GegenwartDie Luftschiffahrt der GegenwartNimmt man verschiedene Zeitungsbltter zur Hand, so stt man fast jeden Tag auf irgend eine Notiz aronautischen Inhaltes. Betrifft diese sportliche Fahrten mit Ballons oder Berichte ber lenkbare Ballons, Flugmaschinen oder simultane Ballonfahrten u. dgl. m., stets wird dem Leser zugemutet,...
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My Airships The Story of My LifeMy Airships; The Story of My LifeTwo young Brazilian boys strolled in the shade, conversing. They were simple youths of the interior, knowing only the plenty of the primitive plantation where, undisturbed by labour-saving devices, Nature yielded man her fruits at the price of...
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Natural Stability and the Parachute Principle in AeroplanesNatural Stability and the Parachute Principle in AeroplanesSince there is nothing new under the sun, it is useless to pretend that there is anything new in the design here advocated or the theories advanced. Both are rather the result of a commonsense consideration of...
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Automobile BiographiesAutomobile Biographies - An Account of the Lives and the Work of Those Who Have Been Identified with the Invention and Development of Self-Propelled Vehicles on the Common Roads An Account of the Lives and the Work of Those Who Have Been Identified with...
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The Flying Boat: A Story of Adventure and MisadventureThe Flying Boat: A Story of Adventure and MisadventureThe term was drawing to its close, and all Cheltonia, from the senior prefect to the smallest whipper-snapper of the fourth form, was in the playing-field, practising for the sports. The centre of the greatest interest...
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English-French and French-English dictionary of the motor car, cycle, and boatEnglish-French and French-English dictionary of the motor car, cycle, and boat The object of this work is to assist those interested in the motor industry and pastime to read the foreign technical literature devoted to the subject. I have translated into the respective languages...
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The Theory and Practice of Model AeroplaningThe Theory and Practice of Model Aeroplaning 1. Model Aeroplanes are primarily divided into two classes: first, models intended before all else to be ones that shall fly; secondly, models, using the word in its proper sense of full-sized machines. Herein model aeroplanes differ...
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The Air PirateThe Air PirateNearly two years ago a leading London daily newspaper said: "The Government have assured us that all danger from present and future air piracies is now over, and that the recent events which so startled and horrified both this country and the...
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The Romance of AircraftThe Romance of AircraftOn a beautiful afternoon in the latter part of the eighteenth centuryJune 5, 1793a distinguished company of Frenchmen were gathered in the public square of the little village of Annonay, not far from Lyons. They had come there by special invitation...
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